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A 7 page paper which examines how themes are affected by either British or American backgrounds affects such essays as G.K. Chesterton’s “Piece of Chalk†and “On Running After One’s Hat,†Virginia Woolf’s “Street Haunting: A London Adventure†and “The Death of the Moth,†George Orwell’s “Such, Such Were the Joys,†Henry David Thoreau’s “Walking,†and Joan Didion’s “Goodbye to All That†and “In Bed.†Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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the years pass. Although the bonds between Mother England and her wayward Uncle Sam have stayed strong despite revolution and occasional discord, they represent two very different backgrounds.
England was, then and now, very much a part of the old world, or a tradition and class-bound aristocratic society of country estates, private schools, and urban industrialization. London
was one of the first cities to be transformed by the Industrial Revolution, and the frenetic pace remains today. In contrast, America is steeped more in pop culture than
in history, and unlike the claustrophobic English cities, its urban areas are expansive. Although the pioneer days have long since past, there is still a sense that America is
still a vast frontier where everything is possible. Unlike the British cynicism and urban sophistication that characterizes much of its literature, there is a wide-eyed sense of wonder and
innocence that exists in American writing, past and present. This contrast and the effects of these different backgrounds are particularly evident in the themes discussed in such British essays
as G.K. Chestertons "Piece of Chalk" and "On Running After Ones Hat," Virginia Woolfs "Street Haunting: A London Adventure" and "The Death of the Moth," and George Orwells "Such, Such
Were the Joys," and in American essays like Henry David Thoreaus "Walking," William Zinssers "Jury Duty," and Joan Didions "Goodbye to All That" and "In Bed." The turn of the
twentieth century was a period of considerable transformation in British literature as battle lines were drawn between the tradition-revering anti-modernists and the lovers of modernist experimentation. G.K. Chesterton represents
the former category while Virginia Woolf personifies the latter. In Chestertons witty and seemingly inane essay, "Piece of Chalk," the theme concerns a man who merely wants to draw
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